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YSK - You can use DxWnd to play fullscreen windows games in a windowed mode (sourceforge.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/58318406

Extremely useful for games that only run in full screen. There are many tweaks you can apply to them, such as hooking XInput or mapping a X360 controller to specific keys, force screen size and several other things

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wine on Linux/Mac (and possibly Windows with WSL) can do it too. Pretty useful when a game misbehaves with alt-tabbing (looking at you, A Vampyre Story)

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev [S] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Windows with WSL

So, use Wine on top of Linux (for Windows), on top of Windows... Where's that Xzibit meme?

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

What, have you never done something that would make your psychiatrist consider you a lost cause? Never had the joys of running some obscure disc you have on Win3.1 on DOSBox-X on Windows Vista on Virtual Box on Linux Mint? Nor have you played some SNES game on a SNES Station on the PS2 mode of a PS3 with a system mod that doesn't allow homebrews? Or even open 5 different virtual machines at once in a 10 y.o. and partially damaged laptop running on a mechanical hard drive with the heavy Ubuntu? 😬

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